The following local students received graduate degrees at Northern Illinois University's spring 2012 commencement:
From Cortland: Michael Legorreta, Kimberly Lewis, Kyle Murdock and Elisabeth Unruh
From DeKalb: Cory Barnes, Abiola Akinyemi, Rohit Akula, Stacey Alden, Harouna Amadou, Shadi Bahanshal, Viswanath Bayavarapu, Quincy Bevely, Praneel Bhangaonkar, Taryn Boals, Tamerit Brunson, Shanna Casperson, Philip Cichy, Edith Cowan, Cory Cox, Byron Czopek, Pavan Santosh Dandi Bhotla, Linda Davis, Curt Decaro, Prashanth Kumar Dyavanapally, Shante Evans, Shandee Ewert, Farhan Farooqui, Ian Fitzwater, Eric Gilbert, Emily Gooding, Nitin Gujjula, Scott Gurman, Patrick Harding, Rebekah Harding, Ryan Harris, Ahmed Hassan, Jeffrey Hellesen, Megan Herbig, Danairis Hernandez Morales, Lakeisha Jackson, Yi Jia, Jason Johnson, Joel Sandeep, David Kettlestrings, Joseph Kim, Min Kim, Muralidhar Krishnamurthy, Santosh Lamichhane, Adam Lang, Sudhir Kumar Lanka Venkata, Jonathan Larosa, Daniel Linsenbardt, Vignatha Macherla, Aarti Malhotra, Lindsay Massie, John Maulfair, Randy Mccarthy, Patrick McMillion, Diego Menezes, Alison Mlot, Rosa Morales, Omar Msafi, Tong Mu, Suzanne Mullis, Kali Vara Prasad Naraharisetti, Jacquelyn Norris, Ning Pai, John Parr, Johnathan Peterson, Matthew Peterson, Thach Pham, Fuad Raji, Sharath Chand Reddy Ramasayam, Jared Ridge, Destiny Riley, Bryan Roush, Vijaypratap Varma Rudraraj, Ata Shakir, Anna Stevens, Shana Stringfellow, Sai Silpa Surapaneni, Rajiv Thota, Benjamin Wallis, Molin Wang, David Washington Jr., Brandon Williams, Robert Williams, Chelsea Woodcock, Megan Woodruff, Sha'Donna Woods, James Younkin, Linyue Yu and Aaron Zvonek
From Hinckley: Holly Kula
From Kingston: Brian Hansas
From Kirkland: Stacey Dreska
From Malta: Julie Feliciano, Tami Johnson and Melissa Perian
From Maple Park: Rachelle Korth and Eric Woodworth
From Shabbona: Whitney Hart
From Sycamore: Garth Anderson, Lynelle Benson, Christina Bieche, Robert Cook Jr., Cynthia Cortinas, Corey Crum, Christopher Ewald, Ashley Followell, Jeremy Followell, Julie Fox, Michael Geiger Jr., Robert Horlock, Jonathan Javid, John Kuang, Brian Lance, Barbara Larson, Tammy Lusher, Ryan Miller, Kevil Muchow, Katherine Piker, Judith Puskar, Bethany Quinn, Nicole Regnery, Pamela Roesner, Kendall Sater, Michael Smith, Erica Torres, Jeffrey Villarreal and Ebony Winfield
From Waterman: Molly Blobaum and Diane Klotz